Genus Stenoscutus. 
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Genus STENOSCUTUS. 
Head clothed with narrow-curved scales over most of the sur¬ 
face, with flat lateral ones and evenly 
disposed, upright, forked scales; 
palpi short in 9 • Thorax with 
narrow - curved scales ; scutellum 
with broad-curved, almost spindle- 
shaped scales, lateral lobes with flat 
scales and a few narrow-curved ones. 
The scutellar scales in this genus 
are very marked, narrow ones being 
on all the lobes, but flat predominate 
’ r Stenoscutus . nov. gen. 
On the lateral lobes. Head and scutellum. 
Stenoscutus africanus. nov. .sp. 
Head pale with two dark spots and a golden border around 
the eyes ; proboscis and palpi dark brown. Thorax bright 
chestnut-brown with scattered golden scales • scutellum pale 
creamy; pleurae pale brown with creamy spots. Abdomen 
fuscous with pale dull ochreous basal bands. Legs unbanded. 
9 . Head brown with rather long, pale, curved scales in 
the middle, golden curved scales around the eyes, a patch of flat 
black scales at the sides, then flat dull grey ones, black upright 
forked scales ; palpi black, rather short; proboscis bronzy black ; 
antennae brown, basal segment bright ochraceous. 
Thorax bright brown, with narrow-curved pale golden scales, 
especially in front of the base of the wings ; chaetae deep brown 
with pale bases ; scutellum brown, with broad-curved, almost 
spindle-shaped, creamy scales to the mid lobe, and flat creamy 
ones to the lateral lobes, with a few narrow-curved ones (when 
the head is pointed away from the light these scales are all 
dusky ); border-bristles to the mid lobe, five in number; 
metanotum deep chestnut-brown; pleurae brown with flat 
creamy scales and many golden-brown chaetae. 
Abdomen deep fuscous brown with basal, indistinct, dull 
ochreous bands and golden and brown border-bristles ; the pale 
bands spread out laterally, but are obscure on the apical 
segments and are partly due to scanty scaling; venter with 
broad ochreous bands. 
Legs uniformly brown with dull ochreous and bronzy 
